Luini’s "Last Supper"(1529) & „DaVinci Code”
Chiesa Santa Maria Degli Angioli (Church of Saint Mary of the Angels) from Lugano is a wonderful Renaissance church of Romanesque style.
The church was painted in 1529 by Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82 –1532), a North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle.
Here is huge fresco painted by Luini on the wall that is separating the two parts of the church (which is - according to the website of Lugano Tourism- the most famous one in Switzerland) ; but more fascinating, on the side south side wall of the Chiesa Santa Maria Degli Angioli is Luini's version of the „Last Supper”’.
This one is divided into three panels because it had originally been on a wall of the monastery rectory with support pillars, moved to where it is now seen when the monastery.
Luini’s version of this event is so like Leonardo DaVinci’s more famous one in Milan that it was once attributed to him, according to „TravelEurope” site. There is little historical connection between the two artists but it is thought that Luini was a disciple of the master or at least greatly influenced in his later work by him.
Luini’s "Last Supper" may have been an homage, a coded response or even a parody. Luini painted himself as Judas Iscariot holding a bag on coins and his own favorite pet cat at his feet.
A close look at the figure of the Apostle John, at the right hand of Christ will bring sharply to mind Dan Brown's “The DaVinci Code” whose entire plot is based on the idea that DaVinci had symbolically painted Mary Magdalene into his last supper in the guise of the John the Apostle.
Luini’s John is also feminine in the extreme, so like Luini’s other female subjects, painted with eyes nearly closed, as if in supplicant devotion, but Luini’s John the Apostle, rather than facing away in DaVinci’s now infamous “M”, is leaning tenderly on Jesus.
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© Ioan C. Bacivarov
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Luini’s "Last Supper"(1529) & „DaVinci Code”
Chiesa Santa Maria Degli Angioli (Church of Saint Mary of the Angels) from Lugano is a wonderful Renaissance church of Romanesque style.
The church was painted in 1529 by Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82 –1532), a North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle.
Here is huge fresco painted by Luini on the wall that is separating the two parts of the church (which is - according to the website of Lugano Tourism- the most famous one in Switzerland) ; but more fascinating, on the side south side wall of the Chiesa Santa Maria Degli Angioli is Luini's version of the „Last Supper”’.
This one is divided into three panels because it had originally been on a wall of the monastery rectory with support pillars, moved to where it is now seen when the monastery.
Luini’s version of this event is so like Leonardo DaVinci’s more famous one in Milan that it was once attributed to him, according to „TravelEurope” site. There is little historical connection between the two artists but it is thought that Luini was a disciple of the master or at least greatly influenced in his later work by him.
Luini’s "Last Supper" may have been an homage, a coded response or even a parody. Luini painted himself as Judas Iscariot holding a bag on coins and his own favorite pet cat at his feet.
A close look at the figure of the Apostle John, at the right hand of Christ will bring sharply to mind Dan Brown's “The DaVinci Code” whose entire plot is based on the idea that DaVinci had symbolically painted Mary Magdalene into his last supper in the guise of the John the Apostle.
Luini’s John is also feminine in the extreme, so like Luini’s other female subjects, painted with eyes nearly closed, as if in supplicant devotion, but Luini’s John the Apostle, rather than facing away in DaVinci’s now infamous “M”, is leaning tenderly on Jesus.
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© Ioan C. Bacivarov
All the photos on this gallery are protected by the international laws of copyright and they are not for being used on any site, blog or forum, transmitted or manipulated without the explicit written permission of the author. Thank you in advance
Please view my most interesting photos on flickriver stream: www.flickriver.com/photos/ioan_bacivarov/
Many thanks for yours visits and comments!